Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast. Each day we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics,

illustrated with stories from history, current events and literature to help you be better at what you do.

And at the beginning of the week, we try to do a deeper dive, setting a kind of stoic intention for the week, something to meditate on,

something to think on,

something to leave you with, to journal about

whatever it is you happen to be doing.

So let's get into it. You have to be able to deal with this. Emotions are a part of being human. They're a part of us, they're hardwired in.

So it's a mistake to think that stoicism is about the suppression or the

illumination of this. How would that be part of living in accordance with nature?

In her wonderful book about parenting, good inside, which I've

raved about a lot, I know, but it's that good and she has a great episode on the

podcast, Dr. Becky Kennedy reminds parents that it's impossible to simply remove your children's uncomfortable

feelings.

You can't, just as your parents couldn't, tell them to stuff it down.

You can't gaslight them into thinking that the emotions aren't there.

You can't make life so wonderful and fun that they're never sad or angry or jealous or

or frustrated. And the same goes for us as adults. We have to learn how to process and deal with our

emotions, responsibly, maturely, especially

painful and distressing emotions.

Adults whose childhood were focused mainly on happiness, Dr. Becky writes, were not only unprepared for tough moments, but they

experience more discomfort in those tough moments because deep down they think that they're

doing something wrong if they can't find the happy and get themselves to a better place.

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